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Everybody called him Ivan the Terrible, but it must have been terrible for Ivan. He had back trouble, which made him just miserable every time he had to stand up or bend over. No wonder he felt like killing people. This fascinating historical tidbit came to light when the Russians removed Czar Ivan IV (1530-84) from his Kremlin tomb last year and turned the bones over to Anthropologist-Sculptor Mikhail Gerasimov, a specialist in reconstructing physical appearance from bone structure. Gerasimov got the backache idea from studying the skeleton, has now finished two busts of the 16th century ruler...
Said the President: "We do not try to mask our national problems, whatever they may be, under a cloak of secrecy. We do not try to cover up our failures. We freely admit them and bend our energies and toil to meet them. I know of no other great power in the history of the world which so freely admitted its faults and felt it had such a moral duty to correct...
...helicopter carrying Lyndon and Lady Bird dropped down outside a South Bend retraining school for unemployed workers. Thousands of children swarmed over the field, crushed in on the Johnsons. Secret Service men beckoned frantically for police reinforcements. Lyndon was stern, admonishing his admirers: "I'm not going to shake hands with you unless you behave yourselves." Several injured children were rushed away in ambulances...
...took the Johnsons 15 minutes to move 150 yards across the field to the school. Inside he talked to the "students"-most of them men who had been jobless since December, when the South Bend Studebaker plant closed, and who were now learning new skills in federally financed classes. Said the President to one man: "We are thinking about the day when we'll have no more unemployment. I'm mighty proud of you. Tell your children that their President sends his best regards...
Back in Town? The new bend in the road describes a full circle, taking Rube Goldberg back to where he started 59 years ago, when the comic pages, Rube's natural habitat, were still good for a thousand laughs. They did not amuse Papa Max Goldberg, though. He had read about an engineer who made $1,500,000, and he thought that his son should do the same. Rube tried. He got a degree in mining engineering and for a few months listlessly designed sewer pipes for the city of San Francisco...